Recent Posts: CraigM350

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: “But who’s going to listen to some guy in his basement with a coil of copper wire on his roof?” We’ve covered this before, and now here’s the backstory and timeline from NASA Goddard, it’s fun reading. A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery The Imager for…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Monitoring Twitter, a number of people are reporting some download sites aren’t working. So, since WUWT has been setup to handle such things (Climategate for example) here is the memo in full. Some might say “Why is WUWT getting into the polictical mess that has nothing to do…

Originally posted on WeatherAction News: Scientists will go to any extreme to get that grant! Not content with the seemingly endless effluent of fear and fakery spewed out of their various orifices, the media have have yet more fear and fakery to spread courtesy of their erstwhile academic colleagues; What I found rather surprising was…

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Getting any response from 13 billion miles away is quite a feat. But what will the aliens make of Chuck Berry? Engineers experience “joy and incredulity” as a successful test extends the life of the farthest human-made object from Earth, reports Sky News. NASA has been able to extend…

US Tornado Report – 2013

The US tornado data has now been confirmed for last year, and once again I have to correct the highly misleading (and, in my view, deliberately so) graph, put up by NOAA, which I show above.

Anybody looking at this would immediately jump to the conclusion that, although last year was a bit lower than in the recent past, there had been a steady rise in tornado numbers since 1950. Bear in mind that many people never get beyond the headlines.

So, to put the record straight. Many, many more tornadoes get to be recorded these days than even 20 years ago, never mind 60 years. This is because of a revolution in methods of observation and reporting over the years. For instance, Doppler radar was only fully introduced in the late 1990’s. Other factors involve increasing population, tornado spotters, mobile phones, and development of spotter…